Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Parabola GNU/Linux

[Nicolás Reynolds]

El 03/01/11 03:20, Jason Self dijo:
> Parabola is a GNU/Linux distro that claims to be a fully free copy of Arch. 
> In 
> reviewing it I have some concerns:
> 
> 1. The Parabola developers perform no rebranding of any kind. This results in 
> the installer claiming to the "Arch Linux". I've also found that the GRUB 
> menu 
> lists it as "Arch Linux" when booting, and so does the login prompt. (There's 
> probably more, I imagine but that's where I stopped.)
> 
> I wonder how this fits in the the "we will not list a distribution whose name 
> makes confusion with non-free distributions likely" in the Free Distro 
> Guidelines?
>
> I've also discovered this as of this afternoon: "We avoid having a 
> kernel-free 
> distro (!) by packaging a vanilla kernel and applying ArchLinux's patches, 
> but 
> deblobing everything before compiling and packaging." [2]
> 
> I took this to mean the binary has been "freed" but not the source. I then 
> grabbed the source from [3] and verified that it does indeed contain all of 
> the 
> non-free parts of the kernel. I think that this means their kernel deblobbing 
> efforts are insufficent, if anyone is able to go and obtain the non-free bits 
> of the kernel in this way.

you took the wrong file. but you hit a known bug on our repo that we're
working to solve.

our own build scripts are here [0], and kernel's is here [1], where you can
find that the linux sources are being deblobbed. isn't that sufficient?

> Has anyone else looked at Parabola?
> 
> [1] http://parabolagnulinux.org/
> [2] http://wiki.parabolagnulinux.org/index.php?title=Blacklist
> [3] 
> http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/sources/packages/kernel26-2.6.36.2-1.src.tar.gz

[0] http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/pkgbuilds/
[1] 
http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/pkgbuilds/core/kernel26-libre-2.6.36.2-1.src.tar.gz

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